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A preview of the lunacy to come:


From left:Megan "Pixie" Gwynn, Lori "Black Alice" Zechlin, Evan "Mirror Master" McCulloch, and Loki.

Names white texted to give people a shot at figuring out who they are.

Finished Brainy's right hand.



Total sculpting time on the hand: 3 hours

The reason there's a white patch on the left arm is that the arm developed cracks there. I tried to patch it with sculpy but it recracked, so it's patched with milliput. Milliput is a two-part epoxy molding material that cures when you mix the two parts together, rather than baking like the sculpy needs.

Ignore the illusion of irises on the eyes. I drew them on there with pencil for reference sake, but that's actually not the direction he's going to be looking after it's finished.

I'm having trouble in my pictures showing it from the correct angle. He's going to be positioned on his base slightly turned with his left shoulder towards you.

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i111/udogcomics/commissions/computo.jpg

Reference pic of COMPUTO, Brainiac's most maniacal invention, which is the inspiration for the base piece.

The base will be cast as a separate piece from Brainy's body, but those wire thingies going around the top of the head are giving me fits.

God help me I'm trying to comic.



Even with a horror theme I can't stay serious. This'll probably be the only panel in the first short sequence I'm going to really paint instead of inking like most comics. Still working out my process so I get it to look like I want relatively quickly and so I can pass it off to the colorist (my co-writer) without fuss.

I've decided to take a try at a small experiment, inspired by some of the art created by Linda. I'm trying to create a "Comic book action figure Barbie". My first experiment is Pixie.

Sense I can't find the right combination of skin tone and hair coloring i ripped out all of the hair of one barbie (from Linda's and Oni's very helpful suggestions.) and within the same barbie that was once hairless I'm replacing the hair with the hair from another barbie. (that is without curves and nothing fits on.)

As I expected my daughter if finding my experiment rather interesting. Asking me endless questions on why I'm "Removing the hair from your mask, Mommy." (She calls the different heads masks) And she stole my first barbie. Having outwitted me with her logic I allowed her to keep the doll. And so it begins after 4 1/2 years without a barbie doll.

This is what I have after a week of plucking and rerooting (threading the hair back into the barbie head.)





Once I'm able to locate black semi curly hair in a store I'll add that color. Though I may end up purchasing it over the interwebs.